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While automation is speeding up and optimizing so many aspects of the retail supply chain, companies should look for process changes before making major technology investments, attendees were told at last week’s Parcel Forum in Nashville.

In the midst of the dog days of summer are the times to be thinking and planning for the winter holidays. With the right plan and tools in place for your warehouse, you can deliver on growing consumer demands. Here are some important factors to consider when priming your warehouse systems for peak holiday season.

During evaluation of multichannel warehouse operations, efficiency typically drops from a movement and storage perspective when between 80% and 85% of available space is being used. With new warehouse locations at a premium and costs rising, here are 15 ways you can improve warehouse space utilization in your existing facility.

While barcodes have been in use for many years in shipping and manifesting systems, many warehouses still don’t fully use this technology. That’s a shame, because barcodes help you reduce costs and increase control of your operation.

By now, we’re all aware of the stereotypes associated with millennial workers. But do we know who they really are? Discover how millennial workers differ from previous generations, steps managers can take to improve relations and why effective management of this group is so important to get right.

Pure Industrial Real Estate Trust, with FedEx and Best Buy as clients, said ecommerce will make up 50% of its Canadian warehouses, up from 30% today. See what other plans the company has, including wooing Amazon as a client north of the border.

What are you doing in your warehouse across freight management, incentive pay for employees, creating baselines for KPIs, developing great managers and other critical areas? Here are 10 things to consider as you look for ways to make your operations more efficient and less costly.

After years of an extremely tight market for commercial warehouse space, mostly due to the booming growth in ecommerce, a rapid increase in development including spec projects has been slowly closing the gap. See what the numbers show and how the market is trending.

What are the main decision criteria when acquiring a warehouse technology system? Whether you have an existing system or are adding one for the first time, there are a whole host of factors that have to be taken into consideration. This special report from Multichannel Merchant will help guide your through the process.